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First Week of Danish Summer Cruise: Part 1

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Queen Margrethe set sail Monday on the first week of her annual summer cruises aboard the Royal Yacht Dannebrog. Yesterday, she arrived in Kalundborg harbour for the start of a two day visit. After a welcome from the Royal Danish Life Guards, the Queen travelled by carriage to Bishop’s Palace for a reception; the rest of her day was filled with visits to a sports center, a volunteer-run hub of 62 social programs, and the lighthouse and museum and harbour in Røsnæs. For these events, she repeated her pale green bumper hat with curling detail and feathers on the side. This is undoubtedly one of Queen Margrethe’s best hats but we’ve seen it a lot and I’m ready for something new.

 

 

Designer: likely Per Falk Hansen
Previously Worn: Mar 28, 2017;  Oct 3, 2016;  Apr 30, 2016; Sep 8, 2015; Jun 5, 2015; May 23, 2015; Apr 16, 2015

Today’s programme included visits to the local weaving association and nature and history interpretation center, the inauguration of a new heat pump at the power station and a rickshaw ride with cyclists from a local club. For these events, Queen Margrethe repeated her beige hat with inverted mixing bowl shaped crown and upturned kettle brim. There’s not much to say here except to quote a reader who once (now famously) commented, “That’s a whole lot of biscuit.” Indeed.

 

Designer: likely Per Falk Hansen
Previously Worn: May 30, 2016; Aug 31, 2015; Sep 10, 2013; Sep 4, 2013; Sep 6, 2012; Jun 8, 2012 
You can watch video of yesterday morning’s arrival here. The Royal yacht moves on to Mariagerfjord for another two-day visit that we’ll look at on Friday. In the meantime, thoughts about the two hats we saw Queen Margrethe wear in Kalundborg?
Photos from Getty as indicated

This Week’s Extras

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Prince William took the salute during The Colonel’s Review this morning, the second rehearsal for Trooping the Colour which will take place next Saturday. He wore the uniform of his rank as Colonel of the Irish Guards complete with the regiment’s distinctive St. Patrick’s blue plume on the right side of his bearskin hat.

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Queen Margrethe repeated her pink straw brimless hat with white Adidas stripes last Sunday morning at a national service in Haderslev Cathedral to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation (Danish Monarchy)

Princess Madeleine shared this sweet snap setting off in a carriage with her husband Chris on Swedish National Day. The couple celebrated their fourth anniversary on Thursday and Princess Madeleine’s 35th birthday is today.

Sarah, Duchess of York, repeated a black felt calot with veil to Ronnie Corbett’s memorial service on Wednesday

Princess Alexandra repeated her natural straw hat with net tulle and silk rose trim last week for a visit to West Sussex. She opened the Arundel Museum during this visit, which has posted a wonderful gallery of photos from the event here. 

In his role as Royal Honorary Colonel of The London RegimentThe Earl of Wessex attended the annual Founder’s Day Parade at the Royal Hospital Chelsea on Thursday. He wore the uniform of the London Scottish Regiment complete with wonderfully feathered hat.

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A few new hats have caught my eye:

this beautiful brimmed design in blue straw with white feather from Danish milliner Susanne Juul
Sarah Cant’s exquisite perchers with such energy and movement
this stunning velvet, crystal, sequin and beaded halo design from Australian brand Allport Millinery
a Jess Collette designed bright pink straw trilby
this quintessential beach hat from Fabienne Delvigne

and this white straw boater hat with scalloped lucite brim from Awon Golding that stopped me in my tracks. I would LOVE to see unexpected new materials used in such creative ways on royal hats!

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Japanese parliament passed a one-off bill that paves the way for Emperor Akihito’s abdication, which is expected to happen next year (BBC)

Lovely picture of the Duchess of Cornwall at the Chelsea in Bloom Festival (her late brother Mark was a conservationist and longtime advocate of elephants)

Sweet new snaps of Prince Oscar and Princess Estelle were released by the Swedish court for their national holiday this week.

Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary today with a new statue in their garden (designed by Prince Henrik) that their entire family joined them to unveil earlier this week.

And finally…. wishing the Duke of Edinburgh a marvellous 96th birthday

Nordic Royals Celebrate 100 Years of Finland’s Independence

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Nordic heads of state arrived in Helsinki today to take part in official celebrations for the centenary of Finland’s independence. As is expected, the Scandinavian queens all wore hats.

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Queen Margrethe of Denmark stood out in her repeated red bumper hat with navy floral bow at the side, a piece that coordinates well with her red coat and floral dress.

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Designer: likely Per Falk Hansen
Previously Worn: Oct 4, 2016; Sep 5, 2016; May 24, 2016

Queen Sonja of Norway repeated the hat, dress and coat she first wore for her and the King’s silver jubilee last year. The streamlined white straw hat features a flat crown and gently upswept brim that curves up around the back and is simply trimmed with a white hat band and slim cords of wired straw.

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Queen Sonja, June 1, 2017 | Royal Hats

Designer: unknown
Previously Worn: June 23, 2016

Queen Silvia of Sweden repeated the blue calot she first wore in February during the Canadian state visit. If you jump back to that post, you’ll see a better view of this blue felt moulded calot shape with widely woven net overlay and mixed feather trim on the side.

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Designer: Kerstin Carlefalk
Previously Worn: Feb 20, 2017

While we have seen each of these hats before, they are not greatly familiar (yet!) and today’s centenary gave us another opportunity to see them in action. Any thoughts about this trio of Nordic royal hats?

 

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Photos from Getty as indicated; Vesa Moilanen / Lehtikuva / NTB scanpix via The Norwegian Royal Court

Princess Benedikte Returns To Royal Engagements

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Princess Benedikte made a return to royal engagements on Sunday (following her husband, Prince Richard’s unexpected death), attending the Danish Osteoporosis Society’s anniversary in Aarhus. She wore a new hat for the event in royal purple straw, trimmed with a pink hatband and large grey and burgundy flower at the side. The flower looks to be the same one as has adorned her navy straw hat, leading me to suspect it is a removable embellishment- something Danish royal milliner Susanne Juul has done before. Princess Benedikte wears this shade of purple well and the combination of trim on the hat and her pale pink suit unexpectedly works.

 Princess Benedikte, May 7, 2017 | Royal Hats

Princess Benedikte, May 7, 2017 | Royal Hats

Designer: I strongly suspect Susanne Juul
Previously Worn: this hat is new

Yesterday, Queen Margrethe, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary sailed into Oslo aboard the Danish royal yacht Dannebrog. Queen Margrethe repeated the new navy hat with wide hatband we saw her debut on May 3.

Queen Margrethe, May 9, 2017 | Royal Hats

Designer: likely Per Falk Hansen
Previously Worn: May 3, 2017

Thoughts about this Danish pair of royal hats?

Photos from Ole Hartmann Schmidt via Konghuset and Scanpix

Queen Margrethe Awards Colours & Boards Yacht

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Queen Margrethe visited the Home Guard at Skive Barracks and the Citadel in Copenhagen yesterday to present two regiments with new colours. For these events, she repeated her vibrant turquoise hat with domed, indented Pork Pie style crown. I have long thought this hat’s success is due to its wide, darker blue velvet hatband which injects contrasting colour and texture to the otherwise one note ensemble. It’s amazing how a simple hatband can make such a difference.

Queen Margrethe, May 2, 2017 | Royal Hats

 

Today, the Danish Queen boarded the royal yacht Dannebrog for the first time this season. She used the occasion to debut a new hat in navy felt with rounded crown, gently raised U-shaped brim and wide silk hatband with tied bow at the side. The neutral piece is a good addition to Margrethe’s hat closet and one we’ll undoubtedly see again during this year’s summer cruises.

Queen Margrethe, May 3, 2017 | Royal Hats

Queen Margrethe, May 3, 2017 | Royal Hats

Queen Margrethe, May 3, 2017 | Royal Hats

Designer: likely Per Falk Hansen
Previously Worn: this hat is new
What do you think about Queen Margrethe’s new hat?
Photos from Martin Høien; Keld Navntoft/Scanpix via Kongehuset and Stella Pictures